This is the story of how the coyote – once revered and reviled – has learned to adapt across diverse landscapes. While grizzlies and wolves narrowly missed extinction, the coyote has earned its status today as top dog.
Grade levels: Senior High (10-12)
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Eating Wild
Three teams, one goal: create a nutritious three-course meal using only wild foods found in the woods. At the end of the show, the three teams gather at a northern resort where they prepare and enjoy their wild meal outside. Eating Wild is ‘Survivor’ meets ‘Emerald’. Who knew nature tasted so good?
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Ghosts of the Rainforest
Wandering along a misty creek bed in northwestern British Columbia, appears a pure white bear the Tsimshian First Nation calls, the ‘Ghost Of The Rain Forest’. But this ghost is real; one of the rarest animals on earth, and one of the rarest experiences in nature.
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Searching for a Monster
Featuring exclusive footage of a species never before filmed in the wild, Searching For A Monster chronicles an incredible four year scientific quest to find and explore one of nature’s most reclusive, little-known creatures; the Greenland Shark.
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Horizontal Everest
450 miles from the North Pole stands Horizontal Everest, the mountainous jewel of the remote north. It boasts the highest peaks of the Western Hemisphere, east of the Rockies. While many have climbed vertical Everest, only explorer Jerry Kobalenko has climbed Horizontal Everest. Using exclusive photography, Kobalenko shares this world of enchanted beauty as we travel over the frozen ocean for 50 hours under the midnight sun, uncovering the mysteries of the north.
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Immortals of the Arctic
No one has ever found a bowhead whale that died of old age. Biologists share their new research techniques as they confirm that bowhead’s may live longer than 200 years. We also join Alaskan Inupiat on a traditional hunt to discover new insights about the planet’s eldest statesman.
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Killer in Peril
The Pacific coast of North America is the largest laboratory on earth where on-going studies into the state of the Killer Whale reveal startling new information about the oceans we inhabit. Killer in Peril is a sobering report on our planet’s heath told from the unique perspective of an extraordinary animal.
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Last of the Wild Mustangs
In the rugged Rocky Mountain foothills of southern Alberta and the remote interior of central B.C., a once hardy and abundant band of wild horses now faces an uncertain future. With their territory being scarred by clear-cuts and crisscrossed by pipelines, and their very existence being challenged by some who see them as rogue trespassers, many are worried the wild mustangs may become extinct.
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Mars on Earth
This is the story of studying Mars on Earth at Devon Island, the largest uninhabited island in the world located 500 kilometres southwest of the Magnetic North Pole. Devon Island is an analogue to Mars which has made it extremely interesting to NASA. Mars on Earth follows the largest scientific mission on Earth known as the NASA/Haughton-Mars Project. With exclusive access, we follow Dr. Pascal Lee and his team of 60 scientists in their exploration of Mars on Earth.
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Mysteries in the Ice
From the high Arctic, to the Columbia ice fields, from the Yukon’s Mount Logan, to the Pacific coast, the glaciers of Canada are the planet’s most diverse frozen repository of secrets, telling the tale of our past, present and future in magnificent detail.